Information seeking in western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla).
Ape
Metacognition
Primate
Tubes task
Journal
Learning & behavior
ISSN: 1543-4508
Titre abrégé: Learn Behav
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101155056
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
03 2023
03 2023
Historique:
accepted:
07
11
2022
pubmed:
18
11
2022
medline:
3
3
2023
entrez:
17
11
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Many animals will seek information when they do not know the answer to a problem, suggesting that they monitor their knowledge state. In the classic "tubes task," subjects are presented with a set of opaque tubes and either see (visible trials) or do not see (hidden trials) which tube holds a food reward on a given trial. Chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, and human children show information-seeking behavior on this task, looking into the tubes to find the reward more on hidden than on visible trials. However, evidence for information-seeking behavior in gorillas is limited. In Experiment 1, gorillas that were presented with a classic information-seeking tubes task showed performance patterns consistent with metacognitive behavior; they looked down tubes more on hidden than on visible trials, their accuracy on hidden trials on which they looked was higher than on hidden trials on which they did not look, and they primarily employed an appropriate search strategy when looking down the tubes. In Experiment 2, we decreased or increased the amount of effort required to look down the tubes by increasing or decreasing the height of the tubes, respectively. Gorillas were less likely to look in tubes on trials that required high effort, but continued to look more on hidden than on visible trials, indicating that their tendency to look was affected by both knowledge state and effort. Together these results provide strong evidence for logical, controlled information-seeking behavior by gorillas.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36396931
doi: 10.3758/s13420-022-00554-0
pii: 10.3758/s13420-022-00554-0
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
59-72Subventions
Organisme : NIGMS NIH HHS
ID : P20 GM103430
Pays : United States
Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Psychonomic Society, Inc.
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